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Home/Gemma 2 27B/on NVIDIA A100 40GB

Can it run?

Can NVIDIA A100 40GB run Gemma 2 27B?

BGood

Runs well

Using Q4_K_M in Ollama

Capabilities:

Fit status

Runs well

Decode

79.3 tok/s

TTFT

2441 ms

Safe context

8K

Memory

25.9 GB / 40.0 GB

Memory breakdown

Weights16.5 GB
KV Cache4.2 GB
Runtime1.2 GB
Headroom4.0 GB

Performance by workload

WorkloadGradeFitDecodeTTFTContext
Agentic CodingBRuns well79.3 tok/s3551 ms8K
ChatCRuns well79.3 tok/s1332 ms8K
CodingBRuns well79.3 tok/s2441 ms8K
RAGBRuns well79.3 tok/s4438 ms8K
ReasoningBRuns well79.3 tok/s2885 ms8K

Quantization options

How Gemma 2 27B (27B params) fits at each quantization level on NVIDIA A100 40GB (40.0 GB usable).

QuantBitsVRAMQualityFit
Q2_K
2
10.5 GB
LowD35
Q3_K_S
3
13.2 GB
LowD36
NVFP4
4
15.1 GB
MediumD37
Q4_K_M
4
16.5 GB
MediumD38
Q5_K_M
5
19.4 GB
HighD40
Q6_K
6
22.1 GB
HighC41
Q8_0Best for your GPU
8
28.9 GB
Very HighC44
F16
16
55.4 GB
MaximumF0

Get started

Ollama
ollama run gemma-2-27b
HuggingFace
huggingface-cli download gemma-2-27b
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